The Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON, Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, have berated the Nigeria Police over its recent invasion of a Radio/Television station, ABN TV/Radio, based in Umuahia, Abia State. Recall that men of Read more…
Most people do not know or remember that, strictly speaking, there were and remain no official results for Nigeria’s 2007 presidential election. Organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the vote itself occurred on 21 April 2007 under Maurice Read more…
A coalition of four civil rights organizations, Open Justice Alliance (OJA) has asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, over alleged gross abuse of the Revised Judicial Code of Read more…
The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, on Friday, said that protests against the Supreme Court judgement that affirmed his victory in the March 2023 governorship election will not charge anything. The governor said that the Supreme Court is the ultimate Read more…
The states that the apex court has heard cases that were lodged by aggrieved candidates and reserved its judgement, are Delta, Rivers, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Taraba, Sokoto, Gombe, Kaduna and Ogun. A top official at the Supreme Court who pleaded not Read more…
The Federal Government has for the third time amended the criminal charges it filed against the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. In the latest amended charge taken before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Read more…
The Federal High Court in Abuja today declared null and void the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code authorising the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to impose fines on broadcast stations for alleged breaches of the Code as it ruled that Read more…
In a notable display of legal engagement and intellectual discourse, Mazi Afam Osigwe, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), participated in the 20th Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture hosted by the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch. The event, held in Lagos today, Read more…
The Supreme Court has fixed today, January 15, 2024 to hear the case filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ion Rivers State, Tonye Cole, against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. Sunday PUNCH findings revealed that the amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving Read more…
The recent call by Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly on Governor Siminalayi Fubara to present the 2024 Appropriation Bill to the House afresh is causing ripples in the crude oil and gas-rich state. Governor Fubara had presented the Read more…
Respite came the way of eight Governors on Friday, as the Supreme Court, in a marathon judgement, affirmed their election victory. In a marathon judgement that lasted over seven hours, the apex court, decided various appeals that trailed the outcome Read more…